Advances in Developing of Human Resources_Sage Free Online to 31 Oct09

Here in France one cannot avoid being moved by unusually high levels of work-related suicides. The current record is apparently held by France Telecom following previously notorious results at Renault-Techno Centre and Peugot Car manufacturers. Sage free access gives acces to many peer reviewed journals on management... more than I can ever hope to read. But on my first glance at Advances in Developing Human Resources let me bring your attention to the importance of the back to basics approach, freely available paper by Richard A. Swanson, intitled "The Foundations of Performance
Improvement and Implications
for Practice" written in 1999. cf. link
http://adh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/1/1/1
Abstract:

The Problem and the Solution . A problem faced by almost all organizations,
and by those who work in them, is in meeting the constant demand for high
performance The demand for high performance affects everything, from assunng
sustainable financial growth of the organization to satisfying the next customer
standing at the front counter But without a holistic mental model of performance
and the theoretical elements that drive it, practitioners are left with the task of
dissecting and interpreting each situation they face Or even worse, they simply
charge ahead in a trial-and-error mode Performance improvement theory results
in powerful and practical principles and models to help practitioners identify and
solve performance problems

in reference to: Advances in Developing Human Resources (view on Google Sidewiki)

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Tavistock Institute and Sage_Human Relations Journal - download free articles today

Free sample issues of most, if not all Journals and special issues of
Sage Management's Human Relations Journal, Free online downloads today:
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Special Issue Call for publications:
Sensemaking, organizing and storytelling
submissions must fit with the Aim and Scope of Human Relations – please see: Tavistock Institute's J of Human Relations Call

Source:
The Tavistock Institute
ps with fond memories of my first in-company training as a student in metallurgy at Glacier Metal and their joint project with Tavistock Inst "The Glacier Project" in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland.

Footnotes
The Glacier Metal Project:
1. cf Google books on ref to The Glacier Metal Project.

2. Link from Accel

3. Abstract from Emaraldinsight:

The Glacier Metal Company is one of the largest manufacturers of plain bearings in Europe. Their products are used largely in the motor car industry, but extend to all areas of engineering application. The considerable interest shown by the company in industrial relations problems had caught the attention of researchers at the end of the Second World War. When the Human Factors Panel of the Committee of Industrial Productivity financed a research project into the sources of group stress in industry, the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations was asked to conduct this research. The Institute chose the Glacier Metal Company as one of the very few which could provide the collaborative basis for such a creative research, which became known as the Glacier Project. The author of this article was a member of the original research team which commenced its study in 1948.
Article URL:

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/eb000899

Glacier Project Papers

by Elliott Jaques & Wilfred Brown

For seventeen years, the Glacier Metal Company maintained a continuous analysis of all aspects of its organization as an integral part of sound management. Out of this basic material there emerged a profound contribution to modern industrial theory and practice. In this book-the eighth in the series of publications from the Glacier Project-are collected a group of fifteen papers by Wilfred Brown, Chairman of the company, and Elliott Jaques, who was consultant social-analyst throughout the project. Most of these papers were prepared for the purpose of teaching at the Glacier Institute of Management. The questions they address cover the whole range of organizational problems and issues.

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Chrome introduced by PCWizKid

Following my last post, as an avid Google user and early Yahoo fan here is the link to the YouTube video introducing Google Chrome 2.

Chrome 2, helpful Introduction thanks to PCWizKid. cf. also my RHS menu bar.


Chrome Reviewed by PCWizKid 11 Dec 2008

Tools_Video introduces and explains features on new browsers IE8, Firefox3 and Chrome

Due to the increasing offers of new browsers, I decided to vision a tool, in fact a Video.
I found it particularly helpful. It was very instructive and easy to follow.
I believe that both relative newcomers and experienced surfers alike will benefit from it. Well worth sharing, I have added a link to my Useful-Indispensable tools RHS menu bar. cf also a reader fast find link below.

Video LINK .

Bob-Metcalfe-Internet-History-Applied-To-Solving-Energy_Imaginative and Thought provoking

Foresight-Hindsight by Bob Metcalfe - published slides freely available site Scribd as
"Bob Metcalfe-Internet-History-Applied-To-Solving-Energy_Imaginative and Thought provoking."

I have just added a new link to my RHS-right hand side menu in the Free Foresight books slides list.

The link to no less than 60 slides, related to the Internet's past contributions to the energy debates from the early days to the present day. Bob Metcalfe's approach suggests that Internet has a strong potential to contribute substantially to solving the current energy-climate crisis.

NB. It is now well established that "easy to harness fossil energy has reached it's "practical" limit on two counts (1) due to it's role in the man made contribution to global warming and (2) due to the limited resources of relatively easy to use fossil fuel, petrol gas and eventually the still dirtiest of all coal. (without CCS -carbon capture and sequestration which is today's situation and several countries notably China's et Al's "Option for the Future" ).

Source:
"Bob Metcalfe-Internet-History-Applied-To-Solving-Energy_Imaginative and Thought provoking."